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I know that bad news is coming when a co-worker messages me with "You're gonna be so mad..."
Grammarly has rolled out an AI-powered "expert review" feature where its simulacrum of me makes suggestions for your text. My real edits are usually along the lines of "Throw this into the sea."
"What I find absolutely offensive about Grammarly is not that they took my name in vain, but rather, that they reduced the complex, important business of teaching writing to a statistical exercise in nudging your work into a word frequency distribution that hews closely to the average of some writer's published corpus. This is Grammarly's fraud: not telling people that they're being "taught by Cory Doctorow," but rather, telling people that they are being "taught" anything."
— @pluralistic, https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/11/modal-dialog-a-palooza/#autoplay-videos
Another gem from that @pluralistic article (tangentially related but apt and accurate):
"If the purpose of a customer service department is to tell people to go fuck themselves, then a chatbot is obviously the most efficient way of delivering the service. It's not just that a chatbot charges less to tell people to go fuck themselves than a human being – the chatbot itself means 'go fuck yourself.'"
So what they mean is word salad, then false attribution to real author?
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